Cat stuck in a door

The little pussy cat is squashed like pancake as she tries to get through the door.

Little pussy is groaning like a giant’s tummy. 

I think the cat is saying...

“I want that fish for dinner.  Yum,yum,yum. I am scratching the door to get out. Ooh no, I think I am stuck.  My face is squashed in the white wooden door. Now I will never get my fish for dinner.”

By Harriet 
Year 5

10 min challenge - Escaping cat

Yesterday my cat got stuck in a little gap in the door. It had a squished face. It looked like it was going to scratch you and bite but he looked like he had a smile. The cat’s fur was caramel chocolate swirls, just like ice cream.

by Alfonso

The escaping cat - 10 minute challenge

The caramel chocolate swirly cat was stuck in the doorway. “Meeow”, he cried.  I could hear scratching. He looked like he was squashed like a pancake with mayple syrup seeping out the doorway. His whiskers were twitching like mad. “Get me out of here!” Is what I think he was saying. It almost looked like his eyes were going to pop out of their sockets. It was so funny!

by Kaylee

Tēna Koutou e hoa mā

17. Tēnā Koutou (e hoa mā)

Tēnā koutou
E hoa mā
Kua tae mai nei I tēnei wā

Nō reira rā
E hoa mā
Kia ora rā Koutou katoa

Kua rongo hoki ahau (x3) 
Kei te haere mai koutou

(chorus) 

(repeat from start) 

Greetings, oh friends arrived here this day.
Therefore, oh friends, Good health, to you all.
I had heard of course that you were all coming. 
Therefore, good health to you all.

Monday - Sports event for Year 4

Please check out the notice coming home for Year 4 students.  The Selwyn Sports Spectacular is on Monday

New posts on the ECO Blog

Check out the new posts from Logan, Ollie and Aria on the ECO Blog.

There is a quiz for you to get the answers right.

Click on this link….
http://enviro-school4springston.blogspot.co.nz 

Speck goes sailing with Robbie

Speck had an adventure last night! He went sailing! At the weekend I went to the ICONZ Raft Race. I made a boat out of flax because we had mini raft races down the river. We also had big rafts with four of us on board and it was really fun.

Speck saw my little raft and he said 'Can we go sailing?' I said 'What on?' Speck said 'That little raft looks just the right size for me!'
So I said 'Mum Speck wants to go sailing!' Mum said 'I know just the place!'

Here are the photos of Speck sailing on the raft in the sun. He went out really deep and I thought I couldn't get him back. Then I had a great idea. I yelled out 'Lets get the flippers from the car'. We made waves with the flippers at the edge to push the little raft to the other side of the pond and I ran round and rescued Speck and his little raft.

Home Learning for the rest of term!

Home Learning
There have been lots of parents asking about home learning in our class.  Here is a reminder so you know what is expected every week.

These things feed into our class programme.  Writing seeds form the basis of any free writing done by your child and the writing that comes to school on Monday is edited with a buddy and continues along the writing process until it is published.  These things are required EVERY WEEK.

However - there are sometimes fun optional Home Play Challenges set.  Here is our next one…..
You have heaps of time to plan and experiment for the end of term and Easter.

How do you eat your creme egg?

  

The ideas on this movie clip were pretty lame so try some creative options of your own:

Frozen, melted on ice-cream, smashed?  In the bath, in a onesie or up a tree?  How could you tell the story of smashing your egg, how it got up the tree…?

Challenge:

Create a short movie of how you eat your creme egg.  It should not be longer than about one minute and hopefully have a commentary and or music.  Good luck my Secret Creme Egg Eaters!

We will share these movies in the last week of school so they are due on in Friday 11th April at 3pm.

Litter Pickers - ECO Promotions

The Litter Pickers are ECO leaders who are trying to get people to pick up rubbish so the school is clean. Every lunchtime they pick up rubbish and give out Gotchas to people that pick up lots of rubbish. We are looking forward to having a nice tidy school!

By Ollie from the Promotions Team

The Litter Pickers are ECO leaders who are trying to get people to pick up rubbish so the school is clean. Every lunchtime they pick up rubbish and give out Gotchas to people that pick up lots of rubbish. We are looking forward to having a nice tidy school!

By Ollie from the ECO Promotions Team

Mushrooms - ECO Promotions Team

We have five mushroom farms in classes all around the school. The classes are sharing the mushrooms. The mushrooms were given to us by Meadow Mushrooms.

Room 4 and Room 3 cooked the mushrooms in butter and we ate them with toothpicks. Most people loved the mushrooms.

The mushrooms must be in a shady place to grow. Mushrooms need water. They grow in 2-5 days. We are surprised that they can grow very fast and very big.

Aria - ECO Promotions Team

Craft Day

Check out some of our work at Craft Day and some of the other amazing pieces we saw around the school. 

Craft Day on PhotoPeach

Craft Day

I like craft day and it is so fun because you get to see all the creations that people make.  Take a look at Quaid's tambourine.
By Arohaina